Old Enough to Be Your Father

December 2005 By TONY QUIROGA

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So, what does Dad really want for Christmas? Forget it, he can't have that. Besides, he isn't making any headway passed out there on the sofa, now is he? So give him the third-best thing—303 coffee-table-size pages of 50 Years With Car and Driver, a book commemorating our astonishing luck to still be publishing a magazine every month after a half-century. Look for it to be quickly short-listed for the Pulitzer Prize in Mayhem. It's a mere 50 bucks, available in mid-November at fine bookstores such as Barnes & Noble or online at shop.hfmbooks.com, as well as by phone at 800-914-5656 (9 a.m. to 5 p.m., PST). Former staffer Marty Padgett is its author, and as you will see, that unfortunate head injury suffered doing the Chitwood story on page 278 has had no effect on his storytelling abilities.